Identification of important bases in a single‐stranded region (SSrC) of the hepatitis delta (δ) virus ribozyme
- 1 October 1993
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in European Journal of Biochemistry
- Vol. 217 (1) , 29-36
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1432-1033.1993.tb18214.x
Abstract
Models for the secondary structure of genomic and antigenomic self-cleaving RNAs of human hepatitis delta (delta) virus (HDV) have been proposed by several groups. Our recent results support a pseudoknot structure and have allowed us to identify functionally important nucleotides in single-stranded regions [nucleotides 726-731 (SSrA) and nucleotides 762-766 (SSrB)]. For the identification of the important residues in the remaining single-stranded region, nucleotides 708-715 (SSrC), of the genomic HDV ribozyme, we made derivatives with a single-base substitution in the SSrC region. To screen inactive mutants rapidly, we use a simplified in-vitro selection method. Among the various base substitutions in mutants in the SSrC, U708A, C709(A/G/U) and G713C variants had less than 10% of the cleavage activity of the wild-type SSrC (HDV86). By analyzing the self-cleavage activities of various mutants, we determined the base requirements for SSrC as 5'-(U/C/G)-C-N-N-(C/A/G)-(G/A/U)-N-N-3'.Keywords
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